Nico is a passenger in a car driven by Owen, whose reckless driving causes an accident, injuring himself. Nico, uninjured, accompanies Owen to Parkside Hospital in an ambulance. The ambulance is hit by a car driven by Quin, and Nico is injured. Nico files a suit against Owen, alleging negligence. The element most likely to be a question for the court to decide is a. the duty of care. b. proximate cause. c. causation in fact. d. the injury requirement.

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Answer: proximate cause

Explanation: When court consider an event to be the cause of an injury, in the situation where that particular event can be sufficiently related to that injury, that event is considered as proximate cause.

In the given case reckless driving by owen lead to the first accident which then resulted in their presence in the ambulance that got hit by the car. Hence owen driving lead the whole scenario thus it is a proximate cause.